A Land Without Jasmine is a short magical realism mystery that centered around the disappearance of a female student called Jasmine at Sanna University, and the conspiracies around her disappearance. This is a thrilling book discussing a girl's coming of age journey in a heavily male-gazed and sexually repressed land.
Read MoreThis is the third full-length novel in the Miss Marple series. Following Jerry Burton who was injured in an airplane accident, he follows his doctor’s advice, moving to a small village where nothing happens called Lymstock with his sister Joanna to have some quiet recovering time. Little did they know what they would experience.
Read MoreThis is a historical fiction about the musicians on Titanic, about their stories and how they started to play music and how they came together on the Titanic.
Read MoreOKSI by Mari Ahokoivu left me with so many thoughts and feelings that I can’t articulate. This illustrated graphic novel centered around a pair of bear mother and daughter that is based on Finnish bear mythology.
Read MoreI read this book because of LGBTQ in Translation Project hosted by Jen from Jen the Librarian. The book for February is to read The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei translated from traditional Chinese. Therefore I read this short story collection that has The Membranes and many other stories.
Read MoreThis is a short mystery story collection of Higashino Keigo’s early works. Aka the book that should not be published.
Read MoreI loved this book so much. This is the second full-length Miss Marple novel, and it’s everything great about Agatha Christie. And it’s exactly what I needed in-between between heavy topic books. It has a weird, almost magical power that made me fully present in the reading experience.
Read MoreThis is a very peculiar and intriguing little book that perfect to read in one go. The story started with Dorothy, who is a housewife living a simple life in the suburbs. One day a monster appeared in her town who’s somehow related to Dorothy, and stirred a series of events in her routinely peaceful life.
Read MoreI was intimidated by Vanity Fair for a long time, but I’m so happy I read it in January 2022. And I enjoyed the experience. Not only does it have two interesting main characters who are also completely different, but also the pacing and the twists of the story are really captivating as well.
Read MoreThis is a set of captivating short stories set in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War. With a hair of magical realism, people’s lives are disoriented. The characters' minds and bodies are shattered by war, which makes this book dark and atmospheric. The book was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019, and I can see why.
Read MoreCursed bunny is a horror and magicial realism short story collection. It was my first read of 2021 and redefined short stories for me.
Read MoreStarts with an ordinary family trip, Leave the World Behind leads you into an isolated situation where you have no choice but to trust the people around you, strangers or family members until you figure out what’s happening. This is a book with an intriguing promise but characters fall on the bland category and the pacing can sometimes be off.
Read MoreSets in Laos in the late 1960s during the Laotian Civil War, where the field was being bombed, this is a book that follows people who were struggling to live and escape from their homeland. It's rich in the historical background, and heavy in the subject matter had great potential in story development but wrapped up too roughly.
Read MoreWhat Are You Going Through is a wandering mind. It’s a book asking the titled question to each one of the characters in the book, and also the readers.
Read MoreReview of a wonderful historical fiction set in Uganda — A Girl Is a Body of Water.
Read MoreVivek Oji died, the body was dropped at the front door. Naked, brutal, deadly dead. How, when, and who did it? Those questions tortured Vivek’s mom Kavita and the rest of the family.
Read MoreNormal People was such a wonderful start for my reading year in 2019, it was a sad soul mate story with a lot focus on loneliness. I loved it so much and watch my review to find out why.
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